Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, and I refer again to the answer he provided yesterday and indeed again to my first question. Why did the Deputy Prime Minister claim that AWB contracts with Iraq were certified by the United Nations and that the Australian government only issued export permits, when this simply is not true? Has the Deputy Prime Minister actually seen these contracts, in particular section 2 where it requests ‘certifying signature and official seal’? Deputy Prime Minister, is the seal attached to the AWB contract the seal of the United Nations or the seal of the Australian government?

See this speech in context